Italian : Herb and Garlic Pizza Base

This pizza base has herbs, and hence adds a
nice touch of flavour to your regular pizza.

List of ingredients:

Qty

Measure

Ingredient

Wt.(gms)

½ cup

warm water

1 package

active dry yeast

3 cups

all purpose flour

½ spoon

salt

1 spoon

sugar

Herbs

2 spoons

finely chopped oregano

2 spoons

finely chopped basil

2 spoons

finely chopped cilantro

2 spoons

finely chopped time

2 spoons

finely chopped dill

2 spoons

minced ginger

1 spoon

minced capers

2 - 3

cloves of garlic minced

Cooking procedure

Add the dry yeast in warm water, mix and leave it for sometime to foam. Take flour in a large
bowl, add salt and sugar and mix. Make a depression in the middle and pour in the yeast, all
the herbs and water and make a nice dough. Add a few spoons of olive oil if you want to. Knead
the dough well; add a little more flour if needed and make sure the dough does not stick to
your hands. Cover and place in a warm place for about 1 hour, or till the flour has risen
considerably. Press the dough with your hands to deflate it, and knead again for sometime. You
will notice that the dough has become quite soft now. You can either stretch the dough or use
a rolling pin to make your pizza base.

Any additional information:

It is OK if you don’t have all the herbs mentioned. You can use 5 spoons finely chopped
oregano, and 5 spoons chopped basil instead. But it is necessary to add ginger and garlic.